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...championship billiard match is the most trying of all competitions," said Willie Hoppe, world champion bil-Hard player, who again retained his title last week in a match with Walter Cochran. When interviewed yesterday by a Crimson reporter in his suite at the Elks' Hotel...
...began to play with confidence and a measured rhythm. From four sides of the room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After a run of 23 he failed. Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball...
Prizes will also be awarded at the dinner to the winners of Class A singles, Class B singles and Class A doubles in tennis, of the pool and billiard tournaments, and of Class A and Class B tournaments in squash...
Married. Elinor Balke, daughter of Walter Balke of the Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. (billiard tables, radios, phonographs); to Morton L. Schwartz, Manhattan financier; in Manhattan...
...Regis group). The cabin for the President has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a housekeeper's room, a sewing room, an attic. There are also a dining cabin, four guest cabins, a Japanese tea house, an open-air theatre, two bowling alleys, tennis courts, a billiard cabin, stables, two garages, a superintendent's house, a gardener's house, a greenhouse, a storehouse, cabins for 24 servants, two boathouses and a chicken house. There are also a fleet of boats and fishing for speckled and lake trout, black bass and great northern pike. The whole is situated a mile...